It is very sad that it has taken the deaths of many thousands of children to wake up the citizens of Europe and the US to realise that their leaders are corrupt and incompetent to a hitherto unimagined degree. People have always moaned about their governments, but really in the same way as the weather - it's just life. People used to get…
It is very sad that it has taken the deaths of many thousands of children to wake up the citizens of Europe and the US to realise that their leaders are corrupt and incompetent to a hitherto unimagined degree. People have always moaned about their governments, but really in the same way as the weather - it's just life. People used to get that by and large politicians are trying, and there was generally no malice behind their actions, they could not satisfy all the people all the time, so compromise was made and we carried on, rain or shine. But the support for the Ukraine war and of Israel has revealed them to be far more cynical, out of their depth, venal, disingenuous and unsympathetic than we ever thought possible.
We now know that the way our politicians are selected and funded, and the way their parties are self serving to an utterly despicable level, and their seeming disregard for people, mean that the entire structure of governance is suspect, and urgently in need of radical overhaul. The problem is that changing it is like trying to dislodge a 20 ton fatberg of grease, shit and toilet paper stuck in a sewer armed with only a couple of tea spoons.
It is very sad that it has taken the deaths of many thousands of children to wake up the citizens of Europe and the US to realise that their leaders are corrupt and incompetent to a hitherto unimagined degree. People have always moaned about their governments, but really in the same way as the weather - it's just life. People used to get that by and large politicians are trying, and there was generally no malice behind their actions, they could not satisfy all the people all the time, so compromise was made and we carried on, rain or shine. But the support for the Ukraine war and of Israel has revealed them to be far more cynical, out of their depth, venal, disingenuous and unsympathetic than we ever thought possible.
We now know that the way our politicians are selected and funded, and the way their parties are self serving to an utterly despicable level, and their seeming disregard for people, mean that the entire structure of governance is suspect, and urgently in need of radical overhaul. The problem is that changing it is like trying to dislodge a 20 ton fatberg of grease, shit and toilet paper stuck in a sewer armed with only a couple of tea spoons.
Yep. People should have known that aft Bush invaded Iraq on false pretenses. Others after what we did to Vietnam.
The only way to fix this is to get money out of politics. And no more career politicians that get rich off of insider trading.